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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Freelance Writers and Editors: All Subjects

LearningMate Solutions is looking for freelance writers and editors in all subject areas for the K-12 market. We have been building our database of talented professionals for several months, and we want to continue to add to our team. We are in greatest need of writers and editors for math and science, and assessment writers for all subjects. Regardless of your specialty, we would like to have your resume! If interested, please submit your resume and a brief cover email to Lisa Panka (lisa.panka@learningmate.com). You will be contacted when your resume is added to our database, and again when we have opportunities that fit your skill set. At this time, we are only looking for professionals based in the United States and Canada.

4 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Has anyone ever worked for Learning Mate? What were your experiences like? I've been offered several projects, but the rates were exceptionally low. The last one offered less than $1 an item for writing assessments. Interested in knowing what others have to say about this company.

I did a science project for them this past spring. The rate was $3 per item (but I ended up doing over 1000 items, so it was a nice big fat check). My issue was with the project manager. Mine was from India, so there was a 9.5 hour time difference. Also, she repeatedly lied to me about my work. I would write questions of varying difficulties only to have the editor completely change them. I complained, the PM said it was an error and would never happen again, and then a couple of weeks later, it happened again and again and again. I an not sure what the are like in other areas, but I was not really happy with science.

I did a science project for them this past spring. The rate was $3 per item (but I ended up doing over 1000 items, so it was a nice big fat check). My issue was with the project manager. Mine was from India, so there was a 9.5 hour time difference. Also, she repeatedly lied to me about my work. I would write questions of varying difficulties only to have the editor completely change them. I complained, the PM said it was an error and would never happen again, and then a couple of weeks later, it happened again and again and again. I an not sure what the are like in other areas, but I was not really happy with science.

I've written for a different company that paid $3 an item. Fortunately, there are still companies in the US paying between $15 and $25 an item for MC questions.

What I have been noticing is that many companies are having people overseas, particularly in India, write items or manage projects and are then paying India's rates to US writers to edit the items or write items when the Indian-written items don't work out. It seems Learning Mate may be such a company.